in the extreme

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. To a very great or excessive degree.

    • It was rude in the extreme to act the way he did at the funeral.
    • The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.
    • But after so many questions and criticism, it would be churlish in the extreme to not give great credit after the manner of England's performance here.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in the extreme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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